Stuff No One Told Me, by Alex Noriega
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I'm Comic Sans, asshole
A short, imagined monologue by Mike Lacher by way of McSweeney's:
You don't like that your coworker used me on that note about stealing her yogurt from the break room fridge? You don't like that I'm all over your sister-in-law's blog? You don't like that I'm on the sign for that new Thai place? You think I'm pedestrian and tacky? Guess the fuck what, Picasso. We don't all have seventy-three weights of stick-up-my-ass Helvetica sitting on our seventeen-inch MacBook Pros. Sorry the entire world can't all be done in stark Eurotrash Swiss type.
Purveyors of Outlook-based smileys everywhere, rejoice.
The greatest TV commercial ever made
So says Errol Morris.
Tim Burton Animates the MoMA Logo
via swiss-miss.com
Fantastic, as expected.
Good Night and Tough Luck
Awesome and visually stunning work from Abstract City's Christoph Niemann. The awesome comes from its accuracy.
IKEA ditches Futura in favor of Verdana
It’s true.
IKEA abandons ~50 years of Futura and Century Schoolbook for … Verdana.
In an interview with swedish design magazine CAP&DESIGN the reason for the change is to be able to use the same font i all countries, including asian countries. Also they want to be able to give the same visual impression both in print and the web.For me it’s a sad day.
via typophile.com
That IKEA would abandon 50 years of brand identification and classy typesetting for Verdana is like BMW losing their crest in favor of a Yosemite Sam decal. Befuddling decision, to say the least.
Cover creation
If you’re interested in how things come to be, here’s a great time-lapse video of how a MacWorld cover is created, photographed by Peter Belanger.
As with most things, there’s more to it than meets the eye.
Phillipe Starck: Design is Dead
In what sounds to me like a personal demon roosting over reality -- or at very least a case of misattributing the evils of materialism to design -- Phillipe Starck says that he apologizes for the waste his design career has caused.
“I was a producer of materiality and I am ashamed of this fact. Everything I designed was unnecessary. I will definitely give up in two years’ time. I want to do something else, but I don’t know what yet. I want to find a new way of expressing myself …design is a dreadful form of expression…. In future there will be no more designers. The designers of the future will be the personal coach, the gym trainer, the diet consultant.”Starck is mainly responsible for the interior design of some fine European hotels as well as an entire cadre of consumer products, from toothbrushes to citrus juicers to wrist watches. While I do believe that what Starck is talking about is a more personal issue than meets the eye, I quite frankly don't see design being dead. In fact, I think there's quite an awakening to design across many consumer markets. I do agree with Starck, however, in saying that a new sub-domain of designers moving forward will indeed be diet consultants, lifestyle/wellness coaches, and personal trainers. For an increasing number, the issues most important to them are wellness, prevention and graceful aging. Link [via swissmiss]
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz: A Short Film
As someone who's fascinated by typography and penmanship, this is just plain fun to watch.
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[Via swissmiss]
